Friday, March 22, 2024
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Commentator:
Deva Woodly, Brown University
Rajmohan Gandhi is an author of more than fifteen books, Rajmohan Gandhi is a historian and biographer involved in efforts for trust-building and reconciliation.
Rajmohan’s latest book, published in 2024 by Speaking Tiger, is Fraternity: Constitutional Norm and Human Need.
Rajmohan taught history and politics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign almost continuously from 1997 to 2022. He has also taught at IIT- Bombay, IIT-Gandhinagar, and Michigan State University.
In 2022, Rajmohan’s India After 1947: Reflections and Recollections was published by Aleph. Other books by him include Modern South India: A History from the 17th Century to Our Times (2018), Understanding the Muslim Mind (1987); Gandhi: The Man, his People and the Empire (2008); Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten (2013); Patel: A Life (1990); and Understanding the Founding Fathers: An Enquiry into the Beginnings of the Indian Republic (2016).
In 2002, Rajmohan received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his Rajaji: A Life, a biography of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.
From 1990 to 1992, Rajmohan was a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Earlier in 1990, he led the Indian delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.